Re: [PATCH v13 0/3] perf: Add Raspberry Pi AXI PMU driver

On 17/08/2026 08:57, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/08/2026 19:27, Ian Rogers wrote:
>>> Motivation & Background
>>> ==============================
>>> Currently, Linux lacks a standard perf-API compatible driver for the
>>> Broadcom AXI performance counter blocks on Raspberry Pi platforms. Prior
>>> out-of-tree vendor solutions relied on custom debugfs nodes and ad-hoc
>>> kthreads, preventing integration with standard Linux perf tooling (`perf stat`,
>>> `perf list`, etc.).
>>>
>>
>> Slow down!
>>
>> One version per 24h in normal cycle, not 13 patchsets in two days! (and
>> even rarer during the merge window)
> 
> I'm familiar with perf-tools which was set up to follow BPF's example,
> both have -next repos. The -next repos merge into linux-next for
> testing. I agree that cherry-picking shouldn't be done straight into a
> pull request to Linus. Is there a principle against using -next and
> linux-next?

How is this relevant? I don't think you read my comment.

Best regards,
Krzysztof